The passed out students will also have these subjects now at the higher secondary level while the next step would be to introduce these subjects in aided private secondary schools.

SPECIAL PAPERS FOR SPECIAL NEEDS

Goa Board has also framed special papers for the special children, as per their needs and their level, after diagnosing their learning difficulties.

Due to this, the result in this area has also zoomed up to 92%, with 135 out of 147 students passing out.

In fact, two special schools – Sanjay School of Porvorim and St Xavier Academy of Old Goa scored 100% result while only one student at Lokvishwas Pratishthan school could not make it.

There were also other special students who appeared from general schools.

Besides this, the Goa Board also introduced a scheme where students could opt for pre-vocational subjects by dropping out of Maths, Science or Social Science.

The scheme of marks for sports also helped 327 students passing SSC.

RETAINED AT STD IX?

The real matter of worry however, says Dr Rebello, is the increasing trend of retaining so called weak students at Std IX, in order to get 100% result.

While 17 government schools getting 100% result could be the result of NSQF, Dr Rebello does not rule out the possibility of many of the remaining 58 schools adopting a ‘retention policy’ in order to get cent per cent result.

In fact almost 149 out of total 380 schools have scored a result of above 95%.

This issue has also been discussed at the executive council meetings of Goa Board, which has warned the schools of action if they find unusual number of students being retained at Std IX.

“We are in a process of getting the whole data in this regard and analysing it since this is a dangerous trend”, feels Dr Rebello.

In addition, the Goa Board has also observed generosity in granting marks at internal assessment, due to which some schools may have gained high percentage.